Young voters have the power to realize a future in California that’s free of corporate greed, and where we can all thrive.
Here is how young people are voting on California’s ballot propositions.
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YES
PROP 2
Borrow $10B to build schools and colleges.
YES
PROP 3
Reaffirm the right of same-sex couples to marry.
YES
PROP 4
Borrow $10B to respondto climate change.
YES
PROP 5
Lower voter approval requirements for affordable housing funding.
YES
PROP 6
End indentured servitude in state prisons.
YES
PROP 32
Raise the state minimum wage to $18.
YES
PROP 33
Allow local governments to impose rent control.
NO
PROP 34
Stop AIDS Healthcare Foundation from sponsoring rent control props.
YES
PROP 35
Make permanent a tax on managed health care plans.
NO
PROP 36
Increase penalties fortheft and drug trafficking.
Read more about these issues and why they matter.
PROPOSITION 2
Vote Yes!
Funds updates and renovations to old, raggedy buildings in our public schools and community colleges.
Creates a $10 billion bond to renovate and modernize public schools and community college facilities in our communities.
PROPOSITION 3
Vote Yes!
Protects same-sex marriage.
After coming for reproductive rights, Trump’s supreme court majority has made it clear that same-sex marriage is up next. Voting YES on Prop 3 will protect same-sex marriage in California and remove language from the CA Constitution saying that marriage can only be between and a man and woman.
PROPOSITION 4
Vote Yes!
Funds projects that improve our defense against fires, floods, drought, and other climate disasters.
It’s hot as hell in California — and only getting worse. Fire season is now a real thing that returns, year after year. Prop 4 creates a $10 billion bond to prepare and protect our communities from natural disasters, while improving the health of our environment and its resources.
Opposition: The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
PROPOSITION 5
Vote Yes!
Makes it easier for communities to create more housing that is affordable.
Gives our communities power to fund more affordable housing in our neighborhoods. Prop 5 changes outdated voting rules to lower the percentage of voters needed from 66.66% to 55% in order to approve funding for new and improved affordable housing, libraries, transportation, and parks.
Opposition: The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Business Roundtable, and the CA Realtors Association are once again using their corporate money and influence to block efforts to create affordable housing for working people, including those of us juggling multiple jobs and caregiving to support our families.
PROPOSITION 6
Vote Yes!
Bans modern-day slavery in our state prisons
State prisons are a cheat code for slavery. Inmates on average make 30 cents an hour, are forced to work, and punished if they refuse. Prop 6 will ban involuntary servitude — being forced to work — in state prisons, and also bans them from disciplining individuals who refuse to work.
Opposition: Some Republican lawmakers oppose Prop 6 because they worry that as a result, the CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation would have to pay incarcerated folks minimum wage.
PROPOSITION 32
Vote Yes!
Increases the minimum wage
Increases minimum wage from $16 to $18 an hour statewide — long overdue and just a small step toward the pay we really need.
PROPOSITION 33
Vote Yes!
Strengthens local communities’ power to fight rent increases
Gives our cities and communities the ability to set local rent control laws that can cap rent increases and even limit how much a landlord can charge a new tenant for all housing structures built before 1995.
Opposition: The California Realtors and CA Apartment Association stay trying to block rent control.
PROPOSITION 34
Vote No!
Stop the AIDS Healthcare Foundation from sponsoring rent control initiatives
The CA Apartment Association put a proposition on the ballot to try to stop the AIDS Healthcare Foundation from sponsoring rent control. If it sounds weird and questionable, that’s because it is: 90 percent of young Californians believe we need rent control.
PROPOSITION 35
Vote Yes!
Attempts to establish a permanent source of funding for Medi-Cal through tax revenue from Medi-Cal health insurance plans
Millions of Californians depend on medi-cal. A yes vote would provide steady funding, and in turn healthcare for 15 plus million Californians. We believe that all Californians deserve healthcare.
PROPOSITION 36
Vote No!
Cuts $750 million from existing mental health, rehab and recovery services while making drug and theft penalties more harsh
Prop 36 is a lie, orchestrated by prisons and law enforcement who are looking to lock more people up and put more of our tax dollars into prisons, all while cutting mental health services for the people who need it most. We should be putting our money into creating jobs, building affordable housing, and providing mental health resources. It’s no surprise that the biggest supporters of Prop 36 are big corporations and the police.
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